Robotic disco floor is a mobile party

[Chris Williamson] designed the Rave Rover, a mobile disco floor with integrated stripper pole for this year’s DragonCon.

[Chris] started building combat robots back in 2000 for Battlebots and Robot Wars and cofounded the South Eastern Combat Robot league. He’s a lover and not a fighter, so for the DragonCon robotics track [Chris] built his mobile dance party. He put up an Instructable of his build and some of the features are really clever. Whenever the dance floor is being ‘used’, pneumatic cylinders lower the disco floor so it rests directly on the ground. A good idea, especially considering what we imagine happens on the Rave Rover.

The Rave Rover was designed and built over a one month span to get ready in time for DragonCon. The build was a little hurried but the quality is still there. Check out video of the Rave Rover at DragonCon after the break.

No, apparently that dude has been out for 10 or so years. They maybe could re-think the stripper pole in a field that is trying to attract women though. Probably very functional for that tiny dance floor, but bad connotations.
Otherwise awesome project!

Nice build, and a great instructable. Beyond that “bad connotations” in a comment to this post? Hack, Hacker are “bad connotations”. Ideally visitors to hackaday wouldn’t be reinforcing a world where snap judgements based on something as ambiguous as, bad connotations, are tolerated.

Not sure if all people instinctively know hat to do when they see a stripper pole or is all people who voluntarily dance on surprise stripper poles have prior stripperpole experience. mobile comments suck